Thanks, or something, to commentor Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD). From Bloomberg:
YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate.
YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster. Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms. The video site, owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has faced intense criticism for hosting videos about guns, bombs and other deadly weapons…
The new YouTube policies will be enforced starting in April, but at least two video bloggers have already been affected. Spike’s Tactical, a firearms company, said in a post on Facebook that it was suspended from YouTube due to “repeated or severe violations” of the video platform’s guidelines.
“Well, since we’ve melted some snowflakes on YouTube and got banned, might as well set IG and FB on fire!,” Spike’s wrote on Facebook, where it has over 111,000 followers, referring to the social network and its Instagram app. A YouTube spokeswoman said the channel has been reinstated after it was mistakenly removed.
InRange TV, another channel devoted to firearms, wrote on its Facebook page that it would begin uploading videos to PornHub, an adult content website…
The jokes, they write themselves!… But srsly, good for YouTube. To be honest, isn’t there an argument that gun-sale and gun-assembly videos should be treated as adult-only content?
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
This is so fitting. Now these losers can wack off to guns and porno–all at the same time!
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I heard another hopeful thing that I commented on this morning. City Bank plans to require any business that seeks financing or to use City’s credit card to pledge to run background checks on all gun buyers, not to sell to people under 21, and not to sell bump stocks. The interviewer I heard asked about existing customers and they said they would try to negotiate and if existing customers found that too onerous, they’d assist them in transitioning away from City. I was shocked at that last part especially. It’s like gun humping is becoming socially unacceptable, which is promising.
Citizen Alan
What’s gonna be really funny is when PornHub bans them saying “At PornHub, we have standards.” :)
NotMax
At least there isn’t a PewPewPewTube.
Yet.
Greg in PDX
I think PornHub is the perfect place for them……PornHub can add a new category: gun fondling. And they can post videos showing themselves having sex with their assault rifles.
satby
So for all of you marching tomorrow, I will be with you in spirit and wearing my orange March for Our Lives T-shirt. Hope there’s as great a turn out as for the Women’s March.
raven
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
This about Iowa caught the eye the other day.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: there is, however, a PewTube, designed to thwart all those evil SJW’s.
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
I expect there is also a Pepe Le Pew Tube.
satby
@NotMax: couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@NotMax: Farmers here are frantic about a trade war with China. Our current ambassador to China is the former Iowa governor. That’s how much the state’s interests are connected there.
Of course, the state went for Trump, especially the rural areas and he didn’t hide his position on trade. So you reap what you sow (so to speak).
AnneWith
So YouTube can do that, but won’t take down the fake videos used to smear the Broward County Sheriff?
Gin & Tonic
@raven: This dude’s got stones. I like that.
TenguPhule
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): It has just started.
This is the warning shot.
We’ll know they’re serious once the soybeans and corn get targeted.
John Revolta
@efgoldman: “Whan you’re a skonk, they don’ let you do eet.”
raven
@Gin & Tonic: I think he’s got the goods!
TenguPhule
@efgoldman: Sounds French.
Cacti
I’m not usually a conspiracy-minded sort of person, but the appointment of John Bolton as NSA got me thinking:
Is the American Reichstag fire in the near future?
He won’t be content until we’re at war, and the public doesn’t want one. Something drastic would have to happen to shift public sentiment.
Corner Stone
W.Va falling apart in the final five minutes.
ETA, these refs are some ticky tack motherfuckers.
Magda in Black
I can’t think of a better place to display their massive penis extentions, than on P-hub.
Major Major Major Major
@Cacti: you don’t actually need public sentiment for a war, especially when you have as much disregard for norms and rules as trump.
Cacti
@TenguPhule:
Boeing and GM will be if the gloves come off.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Yes, I heard this reported on NPR this morning. Way to go, Citibank!
Yutsano
So…when does the Onion file for bankruptcy? Reality done caught up with them.
lgerard
So ammosexualality is a real thing after all
Omnes Omnibus
@Citizen Alan: Yep.
Peale
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): the farmers believe that everyone needs American food. Too bad they don’t. I’m actually not really against this “trade war” with China. There actually needs to be a better agreement in place with that country. Trump is not the one to do it, sure. But it’s been 17 years since China agreed to join the WTO, but it hasn’t implemented much in the way of market reforms it promised to. Its been great for multinationals to access the workforce. But otherwise? Nope. The current trade policy favors exporting commodities and food so that US, European and Japanese companies can manufacture products for export there. I’m fine if the pig farmers suffer a bit.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
This is an open thread so there is no OT but this is sort of a step sideways. Here’s a review of the short story I had in Swords and Sorcery Magazine. The reviewer says nice things. Since, as he notes, the magazine pays $10 per story this is pretty much all the reward I get! Although I intend to try to sell it as reprint after 60 days.
Jay
@Yutsano:
Reality caught up to the Onion, Jan.17, 2001
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/politics.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882/amp
Major Major Major Major
@Jay: and who could forget their pre-2008 classic Hillary Clinton Is Too Ambitious To Be The First Female President?
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: I’m not a big fan of blaming the refs for losses but the W. Va game was really a hard core hold down in the second half against WVA.
Jager
Prronhub has incredible metrics, they do stuff like the number of people watching pron during the Superbowl half time show and where, etc. Do the ammosexuals really want the exposure?
PIGL
Isn’t this precious? The gunbuggering gun bugger from “Spike’s” calls the owners of YouTube “snowflakes”… as if that will cause the vastly powerful, international informational juggernaut that has squashed them like a bug, cause it to melt into a puddle of brown sugar.
I wish I knew where to get coke that pure.
EBT
As a pornographer, I hope porntube and Redtube quickly ban them as well. I and my fellow sex positive people don’t want to be associated with anything so unseemly.
dmsilev
Now they can combine metaphorical and literal dick waving in a single video.
Dave
@raven: I perhaps am experiencing inordinate levels of schaedenfreude watching smarter and better people screw Trump using his own methods but with some actual skill.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@Major Major Major Major:
Agreed. The Iraq War gut-punch-proved that nettlesome point to my satisfaction. Dick “Darth-Stovepipe” Cheney and Condi “Mushroom Cloud” Rice and Donald “SexSymbolforTweety” Rumsfeld and Jr. “RealMenGoToBaghdad,daddy!” Bush fucking *all* lied (well, more accurately, deceived) their asses off to get that unpopular war. And by God, they gottit. And no one, apart from a few low-level grunts at AbuGhraib, paid a price.
Until the Nixons of the world go to jail, until the arms-for-hostages freebooters pay a price, hell, till the Wall Street fraudsters twig that ripping off the citizenry for fun and profit (poor aunt Millie) is a dual judgment of shame and legal conviction, betraying the good-faith of the electorate ain’t much like to change.
Course, on the topic of contravening norms, it’s also the reason I reckon Bush Jr. is *still* a far, far worse preznit than Trump (adding the all-important, “so far”; not to say Trump ain’t got potential to be the new bell-cow of perfidy — he do! clearly!).
Just that when the book of life (and death) tabulations get reckont up, so far, Bush has got the bulge mightily over Trump.
One of the many reasons, for me, it’s so galling and exasperable to see Bush-era apologists and flaks and shitheads be rehabilitated.
It ain’t to one’s credit to be able to sez: “Yeah, sure, I cheerfully, gleefully, savagely helped fuck everything up to *this* point, but, well, even tho’ Trump epitomizes every-motherfucking-thing I worked for, he’s … well, he’s crass. And embarrassing. So gimme props!”
Jay
@Jager:
As other’s have pointed out, PornHub has standards,
Ammosexual’s arn’t welcome.
RSA
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Indeed!
Congratulations on making that issue great!
Mary G
There was a story I am too hungry to look up and in the WaPo, I think, about how Twitler is furious that Chuck and Nancy are all over TV growing about how they got pretty much everything they wanted, except DACA, in the omnibus bill. They even got the restriction lifted so the CDC can do research into guns. Off to dinner.
Dave
@Peale:One of the few possible…. positive for won’t of a better term outcomes of Trump’s idiocy is that by shattering norms and standards of what can be considered he may open up the space of future potential courses of action available to actually competent successors. It’s a hell of thing silver lining but it is there. Just like maybe he will finally break the fever idiocy of our national politics but then I’m an optimist at heart.
RedDirtGirl
I’m getting ready to make my poster for tomorrow’s anti-gun violence march. I’m in Brooklyn, so I’m going to the Coney Island sibling March for Our Lives.
Amir Khalid
Silly liberals. Don’t you know that guns are for children of all ages?
Corner Stone
@Jay: Hmmm…
scav
“Melted some snowflakes” the shouty man shoutily insisted — well, leaving cause aside, enough melted snowflakes and that’s quite the blue wave that might be advancing. And water puts out fire.
Corner Stone
Tom Nichols can go fuck himself.
Dave
@Corner Stone: Agreed. Why in this particular case or is it just a general sentiment?
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Okay. Is this from the TV box tonight or just a general thing?
Gin & Tonic
@Mary G: That’s because Democrats care about crafting legislation and know how to do so. Republicans are nihilists who’ve spent the entire Obama administration voting “no”, so they don’t remember how to write legislation.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Respect.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Happiness is a Warm Gun*, Amir.
*Much better than a puppy.
Corner Stone
@Dave: He was on MSNBC L’OD show and I just hate his fucking guts. Everything about him. All of it.
Amir Khalid
@Dave:
How about “less-negative” outcomes?
chris
I’m really hating Friday nights for some reason
Corner Stone
@chris: I thought Mattis was “holding the line”.
Brachiator
OT. Okay, what is this bullshit about Trump’s banning transgender people in the military?
I just took a peak at the web on my commute and saw this.
Always some new insult from this fool.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Manifestly not true. Puppies give love back. Guns are literally cold, soulless tools.
Calouste
@PIGL: Funny that people who are too scared to turn of the light at night without holding onto their Emotional Support Firearm call other people snowflakes.
cain
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Sucks to be them. They’ll need to downsize and just feed the U.S. #MAGA
BlueDWarrior
@Corner Stone: given how insane Trump and his inner circle is, this might, indeed be holding the line.
Once again, never expect Republicans to respect minority rights, unless it’s rural evangelical white Christians.
RedDirtGirl
@scav: Nice image!
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@chris:
I guess Mattis, in the words of Biff Loman, is a phony little fake.
cain
@TenguPhule:
Oh yeah, at that point the entire midwest will be screaming at Trump to stand down. But I’m not sure he’s going to listen. This is about him. I can see the tweet now ‘Dumb Midwest farmers don’t know that I make the best deals. China won’t know what will hit them. MAGA”
Amir Khalid
@chris:
That lot would love to roll back all the Obama-era changes that let LGBT Americans sully the ranks of the military
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: He had taken the position that tweets don’t count. He had received no order banning trans-soldiers. Let’s see how this pans out.
cain
@BlueDWarrior:
Unless it is a Mercer, then in which case oligarchs come first.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
I’m sorry, guys, but it was just too good to go unmentioned.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Puppies poop and piss on the carpet, and a gun can be nice and warm if you fire it enough.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@cain:
I could totally see Trump tweeting something like that. Has that egomaniac vibe.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: That’s why Obama didn’t do that via Executive Order, Congress would have to pass a law putting in those restrictions.
chris
@Amir Khalid: Doesn’t matter what it is, if Obama did it it has to go. Bastards.
Amir Khalid
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Is this a differenr financial institution from Citibank?
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Okay. Do you really want to go down that road? Sorry, sense of humor about this is a bit impaired.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@cain:
Oh, Blackwater, keeps on rollin’.
Mercer-nary poltroons, jes keeps on risin’!
efgoldman
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
Or he and the JCS held the line as long as they could, without getting a ferret head firing. Somebody (Mulvaney, Dense, Pompeo?) has been pushing it since the original incoherent tweet
dm
Maybe the gun-fondlers will find on Pornhub more healthy ways to sublimate.
Mike J
Dan Savage is talking about the North American Man/Gun Love Association.
NotMax
Dolt 45: I’m never going to sign a bill like this again. Nobody read it, it’s only hours old.
*cough* December tax bill *cough*
@BillinGlendaleCA
And be used to cook bacon.
No, not going to link to that both ludicrous and offensive video.
Jay
@dm:
They already do,
3% of ‘Murkin’s own 50% of the guns,
The same 3% consume 50% of the Porn.
Sex positive ‘Merkin’s actually have sex, they don’t just watch it online.
cain
@poleaxedbyboatwork:
I wish I could plus one this. :)
NotMax
@cain
“More Pork staying in U.S. means LOWER PRICE for McRib! CHOW DOWN, America! #MAGA”
Mary G
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Congratulations.
Friday night news dump from the WaPo:
(Emphasis mine)
Fat Bastard had to do something to feel better about himself, so he takes it out on people who just want to serve their country.
Jay
Welcome to a rerun of the Guilded Age,
https://newrepublic.com/article/147619/pinkertons-still-never-sleep
cain
@Jay:
They like their weed too. So basically, sex, drugs, and guns. The rural holy trifecta. Except maybe we should change sex to porn since I don’t think any of thse assholes are getting laid.
Eljai
@Corner Stone: Of all the nevertrumpers, Tom Nichols is my least favorite. At least Rick Wilson posts cute pictures of his cat on Twitter from time to time.
Bruuuuce
Set for tomorrow’s March For Our Lives in NYC. I’ll be carrying a sign that says
“MORE GUNS = MORE SHOOTINGS”
[picture of Ruk, from Star Trek, getting phasered]
“THAT WAS THE EQUATION.
#NEVERAGAIN”
Is there an official or semiofficial Jackal contingent? I’m being brought by my 19- and 17-year-olds, of whom I’m very proud, but we have no group affiliation at the moment.
Corner Stone
@cain: God damn it.
Bruuuuce
@Jay:
Considering that “merkins” are in fact pelvic wigs, it took me a while to stop laughing at that. Thank you :-)
Corner Stone
@Eljai: I hate that motherfucker. I think Rick Wilson has a good sense of humor but he is just as responsible as all the rest for where we are now. Jenn Rubin puts some good things down. John Schindler is a waste of space as a human.
Nothing positive to be said about Bill Kristol, David Frum, George Will or any of the rest.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Fuck.
Jay
@NotMax:
Nope, North America has a pork surplus, which we “dump” in China.
We are like the Serbian Pig Industry 1912-1918.
Corner Stone
@Jay:
I am scared to even…no. No, I am not going to finish this.
Eljai
@Corner Stone: Agreed. Jennifer Rubin seems the most redeemable. Come to the light, Jen!
efgoldman
@Corner Stone:
They’ll all die eventually, some sooner than others.
NotMax
@Jay
One can never go too far when mocking a Dolt 45 tweet. Per your comment, like all his actual tweets the made-up one is also ungrounded in reality.
justawriter
Waiting for the interview: Porn star Buck Naked said “I do (recites all of the aristocrats joke) but damn, that gun stuff is some sick shit. I don’t want it to gross out our fans.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Eljai: She is a hard-core Neocon. She isn’t one of us. And I am a liberal interventionist at heart. She just hates Trump.
Jay
@efgoldman:
Momma said, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
When Billy Grabam died, I said “Nice, he’s dead.”
AnotherBruce
@NotMax: But what does Senator Assley have to say about this? Could not happen to a nicer fucked up old man. Cmon, Iowans, throw out the filth, Get rid of King, Ernst and Assley.
LurkerNoLonger
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Congratulations! That’s a great review.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Fuck.
Raoul
@Brachiator: Mattis penned a ‘very thorough’ report and the ban is back.
Fucking shitstains. Every damn thing in this administration is an aggression against someone who isn’t a straight, white, male Xtian gun-humper.
Gaaah.
BC in Illinois
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s a start. It does indicate that she is dealing in reality.
Can’t be said for everybody.
Parfigliano
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Hope those Iowans get it good and hard. I have run out of sympathy for stupid people.
Raoul
@Corner Stone: I had to mute Nichols for several months. He has some good analysis, but he’s self-righteous as hell. I pity the students who have to work through his issues and pass his classes.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@Omnes Omnibus:
Rubin *does* hate Trump, agreed. But what’s inneresting is fucking *why* she hates Trump.
I maintain it’s cuz Trump gives away the game.
Not that this is why Rubin objects, either consciously or unconsciously. That would require her to be honest with herself, which is the prerequisite to her being honest with anyone else.
Reason she ain’t honest with herself, imo, is cuz then she’d haveta take responsibility for her significant and culpable part in fucking everything up. (Which, a-course, ain’t to be countenanced by any self-disresespecting wingnut ass-saving ideologue, which, to put it plainly, is what she is.
The fact that these assholes are objecting to Trump, in and of itself, imo, does them no credit. They are merely seein’ which way the wind blows n inngloriously tryn’ta secure a place onna lifeboat.
It’s (Ralph “Blood’n’Guts” Peters) venal and pathetic and cowardly, and it should be acknowledged as such.
imo
The Pale Scot
@Peale:
Rationally IMHO, democracies shouldn’t be trading with non democratic countries. “you can do anything you want, you’re a sovereign country, but we don’t want you accessing the banking system that is run by democracies. We’ll buy strategic minerals if it’s necessary but that’s it.”
Good bye access to SWIFT, etc
The ultimate roadblock to a NK deal is that the crime syndicate that runs the place will never accept any restrictions on it’s criminal enterprises. Counterfeiting, both in currencies and handbags, Drug running, extortion. Never mind weapon tech.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Bruuuuce:
Speaking of which, does anyone know if Trump is going to be in DC tomorrow for the march?
BlueDWarrior
@Raoul: sometimes I think that’s the point. The right on this country doesn’t care about doing something positive with conservatism, it’s just putting the screws to whoever is in the out group
As much as the non-partisan me hates it, we have to amplify the message that conservative ideology is the proximate cause of these issues, and not having a Reagan/Bush43/Trump occupying the office at a given time.
poleaxedbyboatwork
“Inngloriously”.
Yikes. Ah, well. It’s like was once said: “I’da made it shorter but I ran outta time.”
Mike in NC
@Brachiator: He’s back at it again. And when we’re done with Trump we will still have Pence trying to jail gays and ban women from serving in the military. See the last John Oliver segment. He absolutely cannot answer a simple question of yes or no.
Jay
@poleaxedbyboatwork:
Yup,
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/3/15/17113176/new-york-times-opinion-page-conservatism
Steeplejack (phone)
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
He flew to Mar-a-Lago this afternoon. Useful site here.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
BTW, that stand mixer I was so looking forward to earlier in the year? Ended up returning it after the motor started making extremely troubling noises after one use. Too bad as it was a perfect size. Went with this one instead (went for a different color, which I see has gone up by nearly $30 since I ordered). Bigger footprint than I wanted but likes are that the bowl has a handle and that the appliance is all metal. Control to unlock the tilt head is in an awkward place but wouldn’t consider that a real negative.Consumer Reports rated this particular model on a par or better than the comparable (and much more expensive) KitchenAid. Will try to remember to report further as to whether turned out to be a good or not so good unit.
NotMax
@NotMax
Oh, one more like is that is has a 500w motor.
Aleta
Tomorrow in Spring, TX (just north of Houston, south of “The” Woodlands)
(You have to show up to get a free ticket. One pp.)
–Towleroad
AnotherBruce
@Aleta: OT, apparently, Zell Miller has passed away.
He was a man of the south and the south has a warm climate. Zell’s immortal comfort will now reside in a much warmer climate.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@poleaxedbyboatwork: It’s simpler than that. NeoCons hate Russia and Trump is Putin’s creature.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Agree n disagree.
Point taken ’bout neocons’ boner-pill ag’in Russia (formerly, ya, absolutely!; now? who knows what’s Bolton ’em in place?).
Disagree, however, that’s it’s as simple as that re: Hofstadter “paranoid style of ‘Murican Politics”. There is a revanchist, reactionary, self-defeating strain of implosive political impulses to which we, as patriotic ‘Muricans (in spite of our exceptionalism!), are not immune. It adversely affects our ability to see ourselves clearly. (I am being charitably expansive, I believe, in that I reckon this crippling phenomena affects, largely, self-satisfied insecure conservative blowhards.)
This reactionary component, above and beyond the internecine battle over Russia, is ignored at ever’one’s peril.
imo
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
Thanks for the update. I had bookmarked the previous model in my “Consumer Lust: Kitchen” folder. The new one goes in now.
Think I’m going to pull the trigger on this Chinese chef’s knife. It has been calling to me. Not too expensive if it turns out to be a disappointment.
cain
@Eljai:
Actually, Tom does as well. I actually find him quite amusing. I don’t agree with pretty much most of what he says, but occasionally it’s fun watching him battle conservatives. He’s pretty much praying for a democratic takeover at this point.
cain
@Corner Stone:
Hah :D Yeah yeah, don’t worry we’re not bringing that kind of thing here. ;)
Corner Stone
@cain:
No, he isn’t. He is praying for Democrats to adopt his version of Republicanism. He hates Democrats. All of his “advice” is garbage and designed to kill the Democratic party.
Corner Stone
I fucking hate Tom Nichols. Just so that’s clear.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Looks like a more than decent workhorse.
Should you be in the market for a serrated knife, cannot praise this one highly enough. Found it via Alton Brown’s recommendations.
poleaxedbyboatwork
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Corner Stonesays:
March 24, 2018 at 1:17 am
@cain:
@Corner Stone:
The “you’re-not-doing-it-right” fu is strong in contemporary chickenshit Republicanism. David Brooks to Andrew Sullivan to Tom Nichols to you name it. The common denominator (and this certainly ain’t my observation, but think it’s true) is that all the culpable parties seek to cast blame on both sides (tho’ it ain’t true) so that they might reasonably escape condemnation and retain and/or enhance their sinecures.
If Republican dickheads whose agitprop got us here ain’t prostrating theyselves before all to seek penance for an absolution they cannot but hope to one day receive, then they’re just milking a corrupt-as-fuck system that allows them to rehabilitate their incinerated reputations (atta exhorbitant profit! life is good in the faux-penitent wingnut welfare line) at the expense of a gullible forgiving public.
Most of these horrific peoples, like Butcher Bill Kristol et al., should count theyselves lucky if decent people do not spit upon them in public. That we must actually listen to what they have to say, about any-motherfucking-thing, is the living representation of the “life-ain’t-fair” principle.
Aleta
@Steeplejack (phone):
Peasant Chef’s Knife, similar price. Lee Valley is nice stuff. Free shipping happens frequently, they pay postage for returns.
Jay
@NotMax:
Alton Browing is a verb.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I’m good with my Victorinox. Will file the Tojiro for gifts, replacement, etc. (Was shocked to see that I got my knife back in 2010. How times flies!)
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Steeplejack (phone):
What a chickenshit. Is there a protest at Mar-a largo? There should be.
seaboogie
@Steeplejack (phone): hey there…any mellow music on offer? Ready for other than Tubthumping by Chumbawamba that has been useful in dealing with the aftermath of the armed robbery, now 3 weeks ago.
When concerned local citizenry come in asking for details, I have learned to thank them for their concern and tell them that I need to not dwell there right now. Response has been kindness and understanding.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
I love Lee Valley tools! Their catalogs are pornographic.
I’ve got a good chef’s knife (Victorinox again—I love their Fibrox handles). I’m getting the Chinese chef’s knife because I have an urge to check out the use of the wide blade like a bench scraper—scoop up the chopped stuff and move it to the pan or wherever. Bit of an impulse purchase. Channeling my inner Martin Yan, maybe. Also, one of the women on Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street (an excellent show—episodes viewable at the link) uses one to great effect.
ETA: Saving the link to that peasant’s knife. Could be a good foodie gift.
Steeplejack
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
I think there’s one in the vicinity. I saw a story pondering whether Trump would see it.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: I keep looking at your knife and the variations and they do look really good.
eta I have a LV habit and it’s work to control it.
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Synchronicity! I was just thinking about posting a late-night song.
Charlie Haden and Kenny Barron, “Twilight Song.”
Lynne Arriale, “Sister Moon.”
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
I read about that. I have been sending you healing thoughts.
I occasionally still get a twinge from being mugged 11 years ago. Put me in the hospital for four days.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
The thing I miss most about living in my apartment is noplace to do woodworking. I’m no great artisan, but I do like making this and that and turning wood into sawdust.
I think the last thing I got from Lee Valley was a Japanese-style pull saw. Hadn’t really thought about them for kitchen stuff. Good suggestion!
seaboogie
Thank you. Four days in hospital after a mugging? Messed up stuff be messed up – in its entirety.
Amir Khalid
@seaboogie:
I can heartily recommend anything by Patti Scialfa, including this song from her most recent album a decade ago. She’s a brilliant songwriter, easily her husband’s equal, and deserves recognition for more than merely singing backing vocals in his band.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
The other knife that was tempting me was the 7" nakiri (vegetable knife). Price is a little too steep, though, and, as I said, I have a perfectly good chef’s knife.
Mercer has another line, Millennia, with a less expensive nakiri. Probably just as good.
All this got started because I wondered what kind of knife Ree Drummond was using on The Pioneer Woman. I hate her affect—it screams smug, deplorable Trump voter to me!—but I end up hate-watching her because she does some interesting things in the middle-of-the-road “get some food on the table” genre. And then I saw Sam the Cooking Guy using one on his D-level cooking show. It’s a trend!
ETA: Cooking shows and HGTV “shelter shows” have been my coping mechanism for the Trump regime.
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
My jaw was broken—badly—in two places. Mouth wired shut for two months. Good times. Not.
Steeplejack
A little more upbeat: Nite Flyte, “4 a.m.”
Steeplejack
Lemongrass, “Sunrise on Fujiyama.”
Aleta
@Steeplejack: Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories on Netflix (maybe youtube too) is calming for me. Background noise and kitchen shots more than plot.
Matt McIrvin
@scav: I read “melted some snowflakes” and think “exterminated some schoolchildren”, myself.
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: Jeezus – that is just terrible! I got off easy with just a pistol whipping upside the head and thrown down on the ground with bruises. Your assholes were way more assholish than mine.
burnspbesq
@Corner Stone:
Bullshit. West Virginia commits multiple fouls on every possession. They deserved to get their asses handed to them by Villanova, which was better at every spot on the floor.
Steeplejack
Danilo Pérez, “Across the Crystal Sea.”
seaboogie
@Amir Khalid: Thank you, Amir.
Steeplejack
Paul Gonsalves, “Yesterdays.”
Steeplejack
Dominick Farinacci, “Libertango.”
Steeplejack
Terence Blanchard, “Levees.”
Steeplejack
Lenny Breau, “A Taste of Honey.”
Steeplejack
John Scofield, “Mr. Puffy.”
Steeplejack
The Jazz Professors, “The Shining Sea.”
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: Sweet!
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
I’ll check that out!
Have you ever seen Tampopo (1985)? It’s hilarious—like Fistful of Dollars meets Iron Chef.
Steeplejack
@Matt McIrvin:
Special for you.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
With a side order of Little Caesar.
Marvelous movie.
chopper
@poleaxedbyboatwork:
bush is def responsible for more deaths by far, but trump’s only been in office a year and change. and bringing in bolton doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence that the body count won’t climb quickly.
Sasha
From America’s Finest News Source: “Homoerotic Overtones Enliven NRA Meeting”
SFAW
@NotMax:
The Amazon comparison table lists it as 400 W. Is it a typo? Or do you have a different model?
Either way, I’ll be interested to hear further “reports,” since I’m looking at that model, considering buying it, etc. [Of course, this thread may be a little dead, so no idea if you’ll see this.]
Kenneth Kohl
Apparently this happened…
Strongman thuggishness seems to sit well with this regime.